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tngland could not be known. DON MIGUEL is said to have addressed an autograph letter to his Sister, the REGENT, congratulating her on the measures she bad taken for the preservation of public tranquillity, and the- disappointment of those who had dared to oppose the Constitution, under the sanction of his name. Private advices, however, from Vienna to the 15th, which also reached town yesterday, are silent with re gard to the disapprobation of DON MIGUEL of the proceedings of the Portuguese Royalists, and do not confirm the previous reports of his having renounced all intention of interfering with the affairs of his Country. Under our head of Foreign Intelligence will also be found a highly interesting letter from Madrid, (which we copy from the Chronicle) giving various particu lars of the conduct of the faction which, under the de nomination of the Apostolic Junta, secretly governs the affairs of Spain. The evils under which that wretched country is groaning may be mainly attributed to the intrigues of this bigotted and besotted party. Since writing our first Article, at a very late hour this afternoon we received, by express, the Etoile dated yesterday ; it contains no important news from Portugal, and we have no room for observation. The five per cents. left off' on Thursday night at 99f., and the three per cents. at 671. 95c., but after change it is said they were done at 681. 20c. The following are ex tracts : (From the Etoils of yesterday.) PORTUGAL.--LISBON, DEC. 6. CHAMBER OF PEERS. • The President of the Chamber of Deputies has trans mitted a resolution to this Chamber, respecting a proposi tion made to him by the Minister of Justice to suspend the Habeas Corpus Act. The publication of this Act has been resolved on. The Marquis of Alegrete has, in like manner, urged the necessity of forming a Commission of War, and another of Foreign Affairs. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES. One of the articles of the law regulating the guards of safety (provisional), prescribes the following oath : " swear to be inviolably faithful to the Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman Religion, to the King, the Nation, and the Constitutional Charter." PARIS, DEC. 22. By letters received from Berlin of the 15th instant, we learn, that the King of Prussia met with a severe accident. His Majesty, on going out of his Cabinet at the usual hour, fell down, and severely sprained his right knee. The Nuremberg► Correspondent mentions, that since the return of Lord Clanwilliam, the English Ambassador, from Berlin, the conferences between him and M; Bern . storff have been very frequent. Many couriers had set out from the department of foreign affairs for their different routes with dispatches which, it is said, relate to the at fairs of Portugal and Greece. • Intelligence received from the frontiers of Moldavia details accounts of some travellers recently arrived from that • province, who state that the Commissaries of the Porte Hadi, and Ibrahim Effendi would not, on their return from Akermann, re • ceive the Hospodar Prince Ghika, who wished to pay them a visit. It is presumed therefore, that he must have displeased the Sultan, and will after no great lapse of time, be deposed. One of the Lyons journals announces that Lord CocuaANt, who passed through that town on his road from Geneva, intends Ito winter with his wife in Italy. LIES OF THE DAY. _ From the Aristarque.—The English Expedition which set out from Gibraltar to Lisbon has entered Cadii. The French qty . Authorities have received orders to give it all assistance pa edisary for the immediate purposes of its mission. FRANCE. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES. The scrutiny closed at half past three ; the number of voters was 218, a majority—Monsieur Cardessus obtained 129 votes; M. De Labourdonnage 54; M. Clausel de Cousserques S ; M. be Lastours 12 ; M. Bonnet J. 51. Cerdessus has been proclaimed fourth Vice President. The President opened the scrutiny for the nomination of the four secretaries. _ . . The Ministers of Finance, of the Interior, and of Justice, re paired to the Chamber, and took part in the scrutiny, which closed at hall.past four. Number of voters, 217.—Majo- City, 109. The PRESIDKNT observed, it might be possible by this Scrutiny, that the nomination of Secretaries would not be complete, and that a new scrutiny might become ne cessary on the next day; under these circunuitances, he re commended the Deputies to assemble next day, at soon, so as to conclude by two o'clock, as the Chamber could then retire into the Bureaux, and name the Commissioners. The proposition was adopted. The close of the scrutiny has given the following result : M.de Chenevas 114; the Baron Baron 120 ; M. Huerne de „ l'inineuxe 92 ; M. Lesnore 90 ; M. de Fallon 42 ; M. Haudry 18 , &c. _ _ Chenevas and Baron Baron have aocordingly been pro claimed Secretaries. strriwas or THE 21ST OF DECEMBER. The President opened the scrutiny for the two Secretaries. At half-past one about 50 votes were deposited in the urn. We copy from a cotemporary, the following extract of a private letter received yesterday from Brussels. — It is gratifying to find that the policy of Great Britain with regard to Portugal is universally popular on the Continent, and that the energetic and decided tone Assumed by Mr. CANNING, has tended to increase that respect for our national character which affords one of the best securities to old England : Batraszt.s, Dec. 19.—You will easily conceive that the af fairs of the Peninsula occupy here the whole of the public atten tion, there lurvebeen few cases of such a unanimity of opinion. The resolution at the British Government to aid their Portuguese ally is bailed with the greatest enthusiasm by all classes. Mr. Canning. is the hero of the day ; his speeches are read with ani dity—commented upon—covered with applause—all traces of the animosity which still subsisted here against the English have va nished—England is looked upon as the champion and saviour of constitutional liberty, and is called upon to give the last blow to despotism. There is a great anxiety to know what are the real dis positions of the French Government ; and permit me to tell you, that, in spite of your assertions to the contrary, a great many people here will not believe that the Cabinets of London and Paris perfectly agree as to the course to be pursued, in order to restore tranquillity in the Peninsula. These persons foresee a general war, and this apprehension is shared by the com mercial classes of this town. I cite a fact that h a . come to my knowledge in support of what I say—Brussels beakers refused yesterday to accept bills on Paris at two months. There are, however, others, and their number is not small, who seem convinced that this storm will blew over without altering the present peaceable state of Europe ; they hope the energy dis played by Great Britain will suffice to inspire Ferdinand with more reasonable feelings, and induce him, at last, to give a consti tution to his Intieq.. " Meanwhile nothing transpires respecting the light in which our Court views the proceedings of your's ; all is quiet hers. The alarm that had been excited at Amsterdam and Antwerp, by the intelligence of your hostile measures, of which every body ad mired the promptitude, has somewhat subsided. The Netherland Stocks, that were very low last Friday, rose again the next day, and it is expected they will remain steady." An attentive re-perusal of the speech of M. DAMAS floes not alter the opinion which we yesterday express ed upon it. It appears to us, that while it professes a complete approval of the course which England has adopted on the present occasion, and an avowal of the ca -operation of France in preventing aggressions on the part of Spain on Portugal, it alludes also to . the pos sible interference of France on behalf of Spain, in terms, which if they do not actually imply that such interference will be made, in the event of Spain being attacked by Portugal, leave it completely open for France to consider any such attack unjust or not, as she may find convenient. At all events this Speech does not appear to us to be quite so conclusively distinct upon the great question of the policy of the Court of France, as our cotemporaries consider it, and we think the French Ministry would have no great difficulty in reconciling a departure from that policy which appears at present to guide their decisions, with the expressions used by M. DAMAS. Politicians feel little difficulty in considering as unjust any measure , which interferes with their own interests and views ; and the experience which we have bad of the conduct of the Court of France on other occasions, does not justify the hope, that she will he backward in construing according to her own views, any measure which Great Britain and Portugal might concert against Spain, either in repelling her invasion of Portugal, or retaliating upon her in consequence of it ; or, indemnifying ourselves for the claims which we have upon her, and which she has so long contrived to evade. Those claims alone would probably lead to sonic deci sive measure on the part of Great Britain against Spain, and it is not impossible thaLher Government, finding that we will no longer submit to her shuffling I conduct in that respect, have determined to take the chances of war on another ground, which is popular with the Apostolic party through the country, rather than rest it on the refusal of claims, the justice of which cannot be denied. These considerations lead us to conclude that Spain will be mad enough to risk hostilities with England ; and we contend that in that case the expressions used by M. DAMAS do not prove that France will not in terfere on her behalf, inasmuch, as he 'says, on the contrary, that France reserves to herself the right of such interference if Spain be unjustly attacked; and to judge whether she be attacked justly or un justly, will still depend on the judgment of the French 111imstry of the day, whoever they may be. Rumour states that Count MoLiroa has been ap pointed to succeed M. de MousTma at Madrid,and the nomination of an officer of his character would not lead us to infer that a pacific course was positively decided on by France. A corrected report of Mr. CANNING'S late splendid speech has just been published by Mr. RIDGWAY, under the sanction, and bearing the official authority of the Right Honourable Gentleman, and it must therefore be viewed as the authentic declaration of his sentiments on one of the most interesting occasions on which a British Minister can appeal to his country men when the honour of the nation, or the safety of her allies, is involved in jeopardy. That Mr. CAN NING has answered such an occasion will be best testified by the enthusiastic approbation of all parties echoed by the patriotic—the tumultuous applause of the country, which fat indignant at the daring, and impatient to humble the arrogant perfidy of ungrateful Spain. But the enthusiasm of the moment has gone by—not from the inability to exert the vengeance of our might—but the utter in significance of the an tagonist —too wcinialew to be opposed .to the triumph of our arms, and only fit to be trampled like vipers in the deg radation of their absolute slavery. The sound of a British drum, and the appearanceof that banner which has braved a thousand years The battle and tl e breeze would be enough to seal the doom of FERDINAND, without tarnishing the lustre of the British sword in the blood of dastardly hypocrites and parasitical slaves. But Mr. CANNING'S Speech has given a phillipic to our dormant feelings, and roused the energy of our strength, like a waking giant, to display the awfulness of our slumbering might when duty or honour demands its tremendous exertion. • The speech before us may be more correct, . but is not more spirit-stiring, nor so eloquent, as the blast of feeling which charac terized the spontaneous effusion—the extempora neous inspiration of the night—when the illus trious Statesman electrified the House by the magic of sweet sounds, and the tide of impetuous oratory, which, like that of Demosthenes— " Shook England's Senate, and fulmined o'er France, From Ferdinand's to Austria's troubled throne." But this corrected edition of the original will quiet the fears of alarmists, while it satisfies the qualms of more enthusiastic minds. The speaking glory of Mr. CANNING, may be compared to the proud sweep of the eagle in the onset of her flight ; while his printed splendour bears, indeed, the grandeur of the original, but is the calm majesty of the same bird floating on the air, without the radiance of her plumage being ruffled by the daring aspiration of her career. We feel great pleasure in again presenting our readers with Mr. BROUGHAM'S manly and dignified approbation of the principles on which Mr. CANNING appealed to a British House of Commons to support the honour of the Crown, and the faith of the country. It is at once honourable to Mr. BROUGHAM, and must have been highly gratifying to Mr. CANNING. There ought to be no rivalry between great men, but in doing good to their Country. The following is an extract from, Mr. BROUGHAM s Speech : " I entirely agree in all that has been said of the hazards and difficulties inseparable from war, and I was certainly one of those who held, some year• ago, that looking to the burthens under which this country laboured, we were under severe recognizance, to keep the peace. I know the severity of these burthens ; but if I feel their weight, I feel apprehensive, as who must not, of their effect, in case this most necessary measure—a measure which, upon all reasonable probabilities, must prove effectual—should unhappily fail, I cannot but rely on those sound, enlightened, I liberal, and truly English principles—principles worthy of our best times, and of our most distinguished Statesmen, which new govern the councils of this country in her foreign policy, and in spire the eloquence of the Right Hon. Secretary with a degree of fervour, energy, and effect, extraordinary and unprecedented in this House—sapreestiented (.1" can give it no higher praise) even in the elo q uence of the Bight Honourable Gentleman.— I feel that in these principles, now adopted and avowed by the organs of our Government, we have • strong and impregnable bulwark, w hi c h w i ll ena bl e us not only to support our burthens , and, should t h e day of tr i a l come upon us, to meet the combined world in arm s b ut w hi c h w ill a ff o rd the strongest practical secu rity against fUtur a dan g er , and render it eminentl y im p robable that we should ever have th at combined world to cente p d with, so long as those principles are maintained. Our burthens may re main, but our Government know that when the voice of the people is in thei r favour, they have a lever, if not within their hands, within thei r g rasp . I will im i tate t h e discretion of the Secretary, and go no further. We know, because we have expe rienced the extent of that power, our enemies that would be, but who, on this account, will not be so, know it, because they see its effect here, and dread its effect amon th ems elves. If howeve r, that catastroph e , w hi c h hi s Majesty's Ministers have taken the best means to avert, and which, in all human probability, will be averted, should unhappily fall upon us, whatever may be our bur thens, whatever may be the difficulties with which we may have to contend, let his Majesty's Government act steadily up to the prinolplea they have avowed, and let the country but remain true to itself, and I have no fear of the rest." The following is a portion of Mr. CANNING'S reply ; "An Amendment has been proposed, purporting a delay of a week, but in effect, intended to produce a total abandonment of the object of the address ; and that amendment has been justified by a reference to the conduct of the Government and to the lan guage used by me in this House, between three and four years ago. It is stated, and truly, that I did not then deny that cause for war had been given by France in the invasion of Spain, if we had then thought fit to enter into war on that account. But it seems to be forgotten that there is one main difference between that case and the present,—which difference, however, is essen tial and all-sufficient. We were then to go to war, if we pleased, en grounds of political expediency. But we were not then bound to interfere, on behalf of Spain, as we now are• bound to interfere on behalf of Portugal, by the obligations of treaty. War might then have been our free choice, if we had deemed it politic : in terferenee on behalf of Portugal is now our duty, unless we are prepared to abandon the.principlee of national faith and national honour. It is a singular confusion of intellect which confounds two cases so precisely dissimilar. Far from objecting to the re ference to 1823, I refer to that same occasion to show the con sistency of the conduct of myself and my colleagues. We were then accused of truckling to France, from a pusillanimous dread of war. We pleaded guilty to the charge of wishing to avoid war. We described its inexpediency, its inconveniencies, and its dan gers,--(dangers especially of the same sort with those which 1 have hinted at to-day); but we declared that although we could nut overlook those dangers, those ineonveniencies, and that in expediency, in a case in which remote interest and doubtful po licy were alone assigned as motives for war ; we would cheerfully affront them all, in a ease,—if it should attive r ,--wistute•national faith or national lionouVwde. concerned. case has now arisen, of Which th'indenee iikftiith, of which the alut racter is honour. And when - we call upon Parlitrnint, 'not for offensive war,..-whisk was prOposed to - us in - 1823,--'‘-but for de fensive armament ; we are'refereed to our abstinence in 1828, as disqualifying us for exertion at the present moment : and are told, that because we did not attack France on that occasion, we must not defend Portugal en this. I, sir, like the proposers of the amendment, place the two eases of 1823 end 1826, side by side, and deduce from them, .wben takenAogether, the exposition and justification of our general policy. I appeal from the war like preparations of to-day, to the forbearance of 1823, in proof of the pacific character of our counsels appeal from the im puted tameness of 1823, to the Message of to-night, in illustra tion of the nature of those motives; by which a Government, ge nerally pacific, may nevertheless be justly roused into action." " Having thus disposed of the objections to the Address, I come next to the suggestions of some who profess themselves friendly to the purpose of it, but who would carry that purpose into effect by means which I certainly cannot approve. It has been suggested, Sir, that we should at once ship off the Spatiish refugees, now in this country, for Spain ; and that we should, by the repeal of the Foreign Enlistment Act, let loose into the contest all the ardent and irregular spirits of this country. Sir, this is the very suggestion which I have anticipated with apprehen sion, in any war in which this country might be engaged, in the present unquiet state of the minds of men in Europe. These are the expedients, the tremendous character of which I ventured to adumbrate rather than to describe, in the speech with which 1 prefaced the present motion,—such expedients I disclaim. I dread and deprecate the employment of them. SO far, indeed, as Spain. herself is concerned, the employment of such means would be strictly, I might say, epigrammatically just. The Foreign Enlistment Act was passed in the year 1819, if not at the direct request, for the especial benefit of Spain. What right, then, would Spain have to complain if we should repeal it now, for the especial benefit of Portugal ?—The Spanish refugees have been harboured in this country, it is true ; but on condition of abstaining from hostile expeditions against Spain : and more than once, when such expeditions have been planned, the British Go vernment has interfered to suppress them. How is this tenderness for Spain rewarded 7.—Spain not only harbours, and fosters, and sustains, hut arms, equips, and marshals the traitorous refugees of Portugal, and pours them by thousands into the bosom of Great Britain's nearest Ally. So far, then, as Spain is concerned, the advice of those who would send forth against Spain such dreadful elements of strife and destruction, is, I have admitted, not unjust. But I repeat, again and again, that I disclaim all such expedients ; —and that I dread especially a war with Spain, because it is the war of all others in which, by the example and practice of Spain herself, such expedients are most likely to be adopted. Let us avoiaalatliter if r e4an,—,4l.utt is, if Spaisa..avillperatitaanba-alse liraiityleaser lot tut endeavour to strip any wen—if war we must have—of that formidable and disastrous character which the honourable and learned gentleman. has so eloquently described ; and which I was happy to hear him concur with me in depre eating, as the most fatal evil by which the world could be afflicted." The concluding passage of this extract is Lot less beautiful than sublime. But then, Sir, the balance of power ! The entry of the French army into Spain disturbed that balance, and we ought to have gone to war to restore it ! I have already said, that when the French army entered Spain we might, if we chose, have resisted or resented that measure by war. But were there no other means but war for restoring the balance of power ? Is the balance of power a fixed and unalterable standard ? Or is it not a standard perpetually varying, as civilisation advances, and as new nations spring up, and take their place among established political com munities? The balance of power, a century and a half ago, was to be adjusted between France and Spain, the Netherlands, Austria, sad England. Some years afterwards, Russia assumed her high station in European politics. Some years after that again, Prussia became not only a substantive, but a preponderating monarchy. Thus, while the balance of power continued in principle the same, the means of adjusting it became more varied and enlarged, in proportion to the increased number of considerable States—in proportion, I may say, to the num ber of weights which might be shifted into the one or the other scale. To look to the policy of Europe, in the times of 'William and Auue, for the purpose of regulating the balance of power in Europe at the present day, is to disregard the progress of events, and to confuse dates and facts which throw a reciprocal light upon each other. " It would be disingenuous, indeed, not to admit that the entry of the French army into Spain was, in a certain sense, a disparagement—an affront to the pride—a blow to the feelings of England. And it can hardly be supposed that the Government did not sympathize, on that occasion, with the feelings of the people. But I deny that, questionable or censurable as the act might be, it was .one which necessarily called for our direct and hostile opposition. Was nothing then to be done ? Was there no other mode of resistance than by a direct attack upon France; or by a war to be undertaken on the soil of Spain? What, if the possession of Spain might be rendered harm less in rival hands—harmless as regarded us—and valueless to the possessors? Might not compensation for disparagement be ob tained, and the policy of our ancestors vindicated, by means better adapted to the present time? If France occupied Spain, was it necessary, in order to avoid the consequences of that occupation,—thst we should blockade Ceiba ? No. I looked another way—l sought materials of- compensation in another he misphere. Contemplating Spain, such as our ancestors had known her, I resolved that if France had Spain, it should not be Spain with the Indies. I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of theo Id. '6 It is thus, Sir, that I answer the accusation brought against his Majesty's Government, of having allowed the French army to usurp and to retain the occupation of Spain. That occupation, I am quite confident, is an unpaid and unredeemed burthen to France. It is a burthen of which, I verily believe, France would be glad to rid herself. But they know little of the feelings of the French Government, and of the spirit of the French nation, who do not know that, worthless or burthensome as that occupation may be, the way to rivet her in it would be, by angry or intem perate representations; to make the continuanc e o f th a t oc cupation a point of honour. " 1 believe, Sir, there is no other subject upon which I need in th e H ouse , h a s been The support which the eAndtedrresins to hu det r i e n c e e e ive o d r fr e o x m pla a n i ti l o partiesn. such as would make it both unseemly and ungrateful in me to trespass unnecessarily upon their patience. In conclusion, Sir, I shall only once snore declare, that the object of the address, which I propose to you, is not war : its object is to take the last chance of peace. If you do not go forth on this occasion to the aid of Portugal, Portugal will be trampled down, to your irretrievable disgrace,—and then will come war in the train of national de gradation. if, under circumstances like these, you wait till Spain has matured her secret machination s into open hostility, you will in a little while hfve the sort of war required by the pa eificatoll,—and who shall say where that war will end?" . Mr. Brougham. A Quebec Paper of the 16th Nov. mentions, that the Provin cial Parliament of that Province was called together by procla mation for the dispatch of business on the 231.1 January next.— On the Monday preceding, enough of snow had fallen to bring the winter carriage into general use, and the roads in the vicinity of the town are good. In some of the Settlement' 18 or 20 miles from Quebec, thore had been good- sleighing for a tetek or ten days past ; the Areather is, however, mild, but the snow then on the ground, which was four or five inches deep, will remain during the winter. Some proceedings, whicliare detailed in the Gazette of the above date, contain an account of the imprisonment of Mr. Dickinson, the editor of the Stanthead Colonist, and of F. W. Evans, Esq. of Shipton, by Mr. Justice Fletcher, in the district of St. Francis, for contempt of Court, had occasioned considerable excitement, and it is understood that proceedings had been com menced against the Judge by the parties aggrieved, for what is conceived a stretch of power, in arresting and confining these persons, the matter seems to have caused considerable warmth of feeling, and is taken up on public grounds. We learn by the letters from Holland, received by the regular Mail, that a very strong feeling had been excited by the policy of this country with respect to Portugal. Tha Message to Par liament from the Throne, which, it will be recollected, was de livered on Monday week, was received in Amsterdam and Rotter dam by several expresses three days afterwards, where the current opinion was, that England would be very speedily involved iu war with France, if not with several other Powers of the Conti nent. All descriptions of Foreign Stock fell rapidly in price, some of them not Ices than from 8 to 10 per cent. ; but when the last advices came away the panic had in some degree subsided, the communications from the French capital holding out the strongest assurances of the pacific disposition of the French Go vernment. The Meetingt of the Dutch Cabinet had been most frequent, and it was said that dispatches had been forwarded to the Dutch Minister in London, to assure our Governmeat of the determinaticin of the King to maintain a good understanding with England, in the event of any general war in Europe. There was much enthusiasm among the people in Holland, occasioned by the decided tone gltich had been anustned ;ttotOreettriiit*i 'the PerrTneula ; so-tliaNa the event ef' any songs* tthunate.ty 'there can he no dontitttii7that we , ahadi meet with a A3ly iu that quarter.—Mmairto • FUNDS. 4ITY, (Twit; DAY), Twelve o' Clod. The appearance of oBritrah Funds has been very hwy. and a weight seems to hing.ever them, which it is di ffi cult to accotint thr ; Consols opened this morning at 801 to and were after. wards done at 80k .1, Hut in consequence of some he ivy sales, made by what is termed a good seller, they have beep depressed am low as 791 j, at which price they remain. • .Seeete,l reports haVe;been circulated this morning, one that the Duke of Welling ton is:to go to Paris on 4 . special mission ; another, of the alarm ing illness of a high personage near the throne, which we can but hope is unfounded. India Bonds are at SO ; and Exchequer Bills higher, being 17 19 pm. The Foreign Funds, particularly South American, remain without life or energy ; Mexican 6 per Cent. Bonds are 65 ; Colombian ssi 4/ ; Portuguese, however, keep up at 70 2; Russian Stock is the only exception to the above remark, and has advanced from 83 to 85 this morning; Greek are 17 18; and Spanish, 12i 13k. In Shares few transac tions, and what has been done are at lower rates; in Anglo Mexi can the discount has increased to 30 271; United Mexican re main at 8 6 die. ; Brazilian are reduced to 3 6 pm. ; and Potosi, 55 per Share. India Bonds, SO pm. ; Exchequer Bills, 17 19 pm. _ . . FOREIGN Fumns.—Brasilian, 0 ; Buenos Ayres, 60; Chilies, 36 9 ; Colombian, 1824, 33i q ; Mexican 5 per Cent., 53 4 ; Ditto 6 per Cent., 641 51; Danish, 59 1 ; Peruvian, 31 i 2 ; t Portuguese,7o 2 ; Greek, 17 18 ; Russian, 85 ; Spanish, 12i 13 . Mmes.—Anglo Mexican, 30 27i di.. ; United Mexican, 8 6 dig. ; Real del Monte, 80 90 pm ; Tlalpuxahus, 55 60 pra. ; Brarikan, 3 6 pm.; Bolivar 2 3 pm. ; Colombian, 14 16 per Share ; Potosi, 65 per Share. Two o' Clock. The heavy appearance which the Consul market has had all the morning, still continues, and they are a shade worse, being 79i for account. Report has now sent the Duke of Wellington to Lisbon instead of Paris. One thing is certain, that heavy sale.; have taken place; sonic say the Bulls are not so confident, and are desirous to close their aeconnts, inateed of letting them lay over the holidays. Another version is the expectation entertained that.the next accounts which are anxiously looked fur from Portugal, may bring the intelligence of the fall of Oporto to the rebels. 4 per cents., 1826, 114 k. THREE 0' CL 0 CK. Consols for account, 79i 80. A Policy of Insurance has this afternoon been tfthetas,ll.6.YD!s,irtaudan il att,D4part.,4...Erauce, by a vessel under the French colours,including British capture, at eight guineas per Cent. which:in ordinary cases, would have been insured at . three Guineas per Cent.; so much for the opinion of Mercantile men in the City on the subject of Peace or War. Exchequer Bills have no alteration ; India Bonds are quoted at an advance, and at 35-9 premium ; Stock for account 2394 ; the Foreign Funds have scarcely varied, if any thing they are rather lower ; Mexican Bonds at 64ii ; Colombian nil ; and Greek l7} ; Danish are quoted at 57 ii. FOUR o'CLOCK—CLOSING PRICES. Consols Danish Bonds 57i Do. for Ac. 79i 80 Greek Do. 1825 17k Brazilian Bonds Mexican Do. 1825, 64i Buenos Ayres Da. Peruvian Do. Chilian Do. Russian Do. 84 Columbian, 1824, 331 Spanish Do. 12k CORK CITY ELECTION. (PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT) THURSDAY, DEC. 21.—As far as I can learn, Mr. Cal. laghan had last night a majority of 74 over Mr. Hutchinson CITY ELECTIONS—(This DAY.) FIZAD-STRIKILT WARD. The I'olling did not confluence in this Ward until Two &Cloak. COLEMAN-STRIET. The state of the poll was as follows at two o'clock, when it was closed, and Alderman Heygate declared the first six Common Councilmen for the ensuing year:— Mr. Hunter 121: Mr. Carter 115►; Mr. Hall 110; Mr. Allen 104; Mr. West 107 ; Mr. Griffiths 87 ; Mr. Menden 7i. TA RRINODOW WITHOUT. Closed, state of the Poll at two o'clock. Mr. Roberto, 264; Mr. Tickner, 275 ; Mr. %bard, 2bo; Mr. Savage, 265 ; Mr. Butterworth, 247; Mr. Harmer, 243 ; Mr. Ratnahaw, 288 ; Mr. Griffith, 245 ; Mr. Crook, 25A ; Mr. Blackett, 235 ; Mr. Beckwith, 239 ; Mr. Figgine, 219 ; Mr. Galloway, 201 ; Mr. Taylor, 248 Mr. Barrett, 240. WARD OF )011110PSGATIK. State of the Poll at two o'clock—Mr. T. Greenaway, Dep. 97 ; Sir W. Rawlins, Dep. 100 ; Mr. N. Phene, 79 ; Mr. J. bowler, 89 ; Mr. W. Weston, 81 ; Mr. W. Day, St ; Mr. J. Beynon, 98 ; Mr. J. Stirtevant, 79 ; Mr. J. Duddell, 80 ; Mr. W. Stevens, 82 ; Mr. W. A. Peacock, 92 : Mr. •S. Bennett, 95 ; Mr. B. G. Windus, SS ; Mr. T. Glover, 84 ; Mr. T. Windt's, 88. TOW/R VAril). Final close of the Poll.—Mr. Peter Skipper, Deputy, 209 ; Mr. Samuel Dixon, 176 ; Mr. Samuel Wright, 19b ; Alr. Char lea Stuart, 177 ; Mr. William Cawthorn, 167 ; Mr. Gilpin Goat, 144 ; Mr. John Drinkuld, 193 ; Mr. Robert Smith, 177 ; Mr. James Hunt, 164 ; Mr. Edward Hamblet Noy, 181 ; Mr. William Robinson, 172 ; Mi. William J. Hall, 163 ; Mr. Thomas Howell, 143. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. WINDSOR, DEC. 22.—Yesterday his MAJESTY WAS occupied With public business at the Royal Lodge, and did not take any out-door exercise. The pony phaetons are ordered to be in readiness for an airing this afternoon. Her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta enjoys an airing almost daily, accompanied by her Lady in The Duke of Clarence returned to his residence in Bushy Park on Thursday night. The Speaker of the House of Commons visited the Duke of York yesterday at the residence of the Duke of Rut land, in Arlington-street. The Princesses Victoria and Feodore, attended by Miss "Alen, took an airing yesterday in blytle Park, &c. Despatches were sent off yesterday from the Foreign Office, to Lord Granville, our A m b assa d or at Par i s .. The Ist division of the 12th (th e P r ince of Wales's Royal Lancers) marched on Th urs d ay , to P or t mouth ; and the 2d division marched in yesterd ay f or em b ar k a tion for Portugal. 5..—(71111§ DAY.) DM Trusses.) MESS. rover 11ay jiltits. 6 iitrsw Whitt Ditto IIt 116 HAY MARKET (At per Load ST. JA Lowland Meadow Ilayl3 10 to 4 10 Upland Ditto stye, r asa Hay Nevaileadow Hay 4 5 5 5, • Supply good, and trade dull ; prices as last quoted SMITHFIELD. Loselarid Meadow IlayifS Sto 4 5 Clover Hay itnerally $4 10 to $ 0 Upland Ditto Itycncass Hay Newillltadow Hay .... 4 0 5 0 Wheat Ditto 1 I 115 S i tipply moderately good, and trade dull, price' as on 'Thursday. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Poarsmourn, Dec. 21.—We have the pleasure of communi cating, that the Infantry Regiments intended to be einharked at this place for Portugal have now Anallylleptuiect. The Melville, 74, Captain H. Hill, which sailed yesterday with Sir Thomas Hardy, was obliged to p ut ' b ac k to Sf'.:llelens last night, by strong southerly gales ; but she sailed theme at day-light this e morning, .w . i a fine wind from th e nort h war d. Thi s sh i p h as the 63d ' l'it on board, with G en . Si r Edw. b lakeney and Sir T. Al not. Sir T. Hardy, notwithstanding the weather, kept at sea in the Wellesley, 74, having been joined by the Glou cester, 74, Capt. Horton, from St. Helens. These ships have the Guards on board. The Romney, 60, and Pyramus frigate, which sailed on Sunday, with the 4th Regiment on board, will probably reach the Tagus to-morrow night ; and, if the present wind continue, Sir Thomas Hardy, with the ships befor•-nemod, will arrive there on Wednesday next. We never knew an expe dition more hastily sent out from this country, and, considering the season of the year, when it is usual to have stormy westerly gales, we may say, more providentially favoured by weather, A detachment of the 10th Hussars arrived this afternoon to em bark. The 12th Lancers, and remainder of the 10th, tame in on Sunday and Monday. The transports are quite ready to re ceive them. Sailed this afternoon the Forte frigate, Capt. Coghlsn, with his Excellency Mr. Neumann, Minister Plenipotentiary from the Emperor of Austria to the Court at Brasilia, For Rio Janeiro. The Spartiate, 74, will sail on Sunday for the Tagus, taking detachments of Marines. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. LLOYD'S.—(Tnta DAY.) + .'jbltir4 Dac, '22.—Wind W.—Passed, the following front *don :—Patiener, Kind, for the Cape of Good Hope, and Co `quatte, Elizabeth, Mary Brack, George and Mary, Minerva, Sarah Ward, New Manley., Oscar, Liebe, T. Botteh, and Baltic—out { ward-bound. PORTiMOUTH, Die. 22.—Wind N.W.—Passed, the eltrlit. +Jinn, Spencer, from London, for Timor. His' . Iklajtoty'a ship Spartiste remains at Spithead. Sailed the Hope trimsporf, tera, for Lisbon, with troops and horses. FALMOUTH, DEC. 21.—Wind W.N.W. to N.-01! the Port, the Anne, Burns, from Ricl►ebucto, in ah days. Sailed the Re flown, Cassel, for St. Vincent's and Jamaica. PENZANCI, Dxc. 20.—The Heroine transport, from Potts mouth to Cork, to take troops for Lisbon, was well in with the land this morning, and continued her voyage. Gicavr.sat4n, arc. 512.—Arrived the Diligence, Long, from Memel. Sailed the Nautilus, 11111, and Jana Catherine, Bar clays, from Jamaica ; and Lady Dundee, White, from Genoa. THE MARKETS. COVENT-GARDEN MARKET.—(TivIS DAY . There was a rely great supply at this morning's market, and the trade, on account of advanced prices being demanded, was quite dull. Most kinds of Vegetables, with Apples, Pura, Quinces, Filberts, and Grapes, (the two last articles nearly done with), were considerably dearer than on this day sennight ; in prices of other things no material alteration. s. d. to s, rt. rotators (per cwt.) 3 0 6 0 Cabbages (12 heads) 1 0 I 0 Ditto lied 1 0 1 a Savoys I () 2 0 Horse Radish (bundle) 6 5 0 Brocoli Celery 1 0 2 0 Carrots (12bunches) Turnips Coleworts or Greens I Ii 0 Leeks 3l'" 1e (half-sieve) 1 0 1 0 Small Onions 9 6 4 0 s. d. tos. d. Fars (half-sieve) 3 0 7 6 Apples, Common 2 0 3 0 Ditto, Choice 4 0 0 0 Quinces Oranges (100) Lemons 3 6 10 0 English Walnuts..., 1 0 0 0 SpanishChesnuti(peck) 3 0 6 • ' , tench ditto , 4, 6 French Walnuts 0 6 4 0 Spanish Hatlenuts .., 9 0 4 6 }diverts (WIN.) ti 0 111 0 Grapes WHITECHAPEL RAY MARKET.—Dee. 11, Wk. Od. to 1056. Oct Pk& Od. to 1261. Ott. NEWOATP AND LEAI)rNHALI, TitARKZTII. At per atone, b the Cameos. a. d. to a, d. Beef M 3 3 0 Mutton 210 310 PRICES OF HOPS Pockets. Kent 4/. thl. 4/. 15s. to Al. Us. Sussex 31. 16s. 41 44. to 41. 10s. Essex— 41. Os. 11. 15s. to W. 14. Farnham, fine (Pockets) 71. 7s. to 306. CA to 361. •. dAso. Veal Pork 4 0 5 5 I (Per Cwt)—Doe. *l. I /NIL Kent ...: 31. tic 41. CO. to /11. As. Sussex 31. Ss. 1/1. IN. to X. 16. Essex., 31. es. 31. /tic to 41, lei. dl IW.—Apeoguls, N. Os. to n. a.. PRICE OF POTATONS.—Der.IL Yorkshire Kidneys thimbles and Shaws Ss. to V. 10s. ditto, Marsh 41. Os. to 41. 10a. ditto. PRICES OF Per lb. a: - niit,„_so to 58115.... YO to IV Ditto..... 90 to &lib...* WI to 94 Dressing 13 to IN Fine Coach Hides Ito to 17 Crop Hides, 35 to 401 b... 13j to 14i Ditt0.......43 to 401 b,... 1N to 17 Ditto . 17 to 19 LEATHER. Per it►. Tanned Hone Hides.... Spanish Pa dose*. Calf tikins—... 36 to 40eb. Ditto 30 to /011). Ditto 70 to 11011). :Mull Seals, Greenland.. d. d 111 to 111 13 to 111 111 to 114 I to *1 to NI 111 te 111 RAW HIDES. Per Stone. a. d. s. d. Per Stone. s. A I. 4. Rest Heifers and Steers 2 El to 9 2 Ordinary 0 to It 11 Middlings SWEEP SKINS. Fe111.,25. 3(1. to 4i, 94. I Lambs— Oo.0(1. to Of. Od. I Polled.. M. tit M. 8411 PRICE*OI."FALLOW, SI Town Tallow ;Ms. Od. to Os. Od. Yellow Russia... 4VL Od. to Os. Od. 04.1. to Os. Od. Soap —l. Od. to its. Od. 11frIted 3.55. Od. to Its, Od. Ditto Rough.... Ws. Od, to Os. Nt. AP, &e. per 1121h--Dee. ft. Yellow Soap . Ilei N . Mottled - fib OA. Cur ddywwwww•••••.••••••••4 911111. Od. graver Good Dregs , _ SI. Od. PRICE OF RAW FA' Price by Tallow (as stated by the Ti psr stone of lkib.—Det. 121 How Mellen) I. Sid. PRICE OF CANDLES. The price of good Store Candles, in the retail shorn, Is as follow. Candles, pet dozen Ss. Od. to 9.. Od. Moulds, per dozen , l6i. 6d. s. d. 99 0 Bunion 32 0 al 6 blain ,166 0 Ord's Itedhugh —, 28 0 Wdlington---.. 32 NVallbottle 28 Ships at Market, AL MARK 29 0 W. E, Mown's-- 32 0 W. E. Green's.—. 32 0 1 \V. E. W. E. !Nisei's— 113 3 llartloy 31 0 Fawcett Hain...... 30 0 40%...--sbipa saki, 17}4, CORN 1 r supplied icy, Yeas 6. d. Husaall's Lyon's 3 Walls End Matson I W. E. Lanibtoa...ll Walla nd Lyon. 14 3 W, St. A E prlngwall IN) 0 W. E. Iltawassia. 36 —.Unsel4. If A RK ET.- with all Dv and flea EDINBURG, Our market was think particularly of Oats, Bei a farther reduction in prices. Wheat. Barley. Oat/. First Second ... 29c rxi YAs Od ils tkl Third There were $(5 bolls of Wheat. In market, 840 of SA at... 31s. 6d. I I Itl at... 110 a. (Id. 147 at... 295. 3EI 11 0 104 114 GLAS(ONV MA Whee,t per 2401 b. s. tl. s, d. British, old le)0011101 er. 20, SIM Oil ttil Od 1151 011 rhlch sold a 61 l l° at 6 21 'ass, tga. k —..--... new Canada, het 2B 0 SI fl Irish 27 0 :`lO 0 Barley, per 2201 b Englsh 32 0 St 0 Scotti►h Irish ISO 31 0 ,rtt of Grain to-day, int; tales dot ; with rertt4l. 1 nikilllit. lON Oa flii 64 95s Od 14 undrt :. t... 261.0 d. . 11 6 tXEl'.—Dec. 20. ------ Oats, pet 2041 b. d. a, d. Irish 24otelld Britioh — 0 Beans, par lOU Enslish Scottish Pease, Scottish . .. . . Oatmeal, pet 140 0 ...* SS 0 IMO Flour, per 211101 b. 40 0 60 6 The architect of the new psiace at Pimlico scorns to he giving his Nlajesty's domestic , / plenty of Pigtog 4- hata in lieu of windows. DEER 1N 114 CRANRORNS elfACE.—The mildness of the wi n t ers f or t h e lot 6w re 4 re havingpreserved the deer of Chanhorn e Ch ace from any material injury, by the severity of the weather they are Paid to be more numerous than at any former period within recollection. A few weeks ago a number of there animals, from the woods and pastures of the Chace, between G u „d„ sad Ashmore, crossed the narrow downs on the western aide, an d draiended into the adjacent parts of the vole of Meek more. It is probable that many of the younger deer will fall a „ c am for want of food, in case of any thing likes hard winter; *ad round policy, u well as humanity, to that part of the brat. c reation, might indicate the propriety of lessening their numbers in part, at leapt of the young ones, in order to maintain the mainder. It is probable that there are front twelve to Mow thousand deer in the Chace at this time, although the general average of the season is suppo sed to amount only t o t e n thousand. The mortality that occur 'among the deer about twelve year* ago is recoiled by most persons who are conversant with th e Chace; end at a later period it is well known the *bandeau of deer compelled great numbers of them to seek better provisions by descending into the vales, and that a great part of them were not allowed, or were unable to return.—.. Western Reporter. i,